Re: Pseudo Code or Compiled

I agree wholeheartedly with Will's excellent summary. Obviously most of my clients don't want to face the pain of buying 2 sets of compilers & runtimes, so I generally advise people to stick to RDS due to the availability of the debugger...makes _my_ life easier! :-) The reason for the slow load in RDS is that fglgo checks that all necessary functions are present on load, whereas the C compiler obviously does that at link time. I suspect that there would be a much smaller differential if you compared loading monolithic programs (i.e. programs with only a MAIN ... END MAIN, no FUNCTIONs). That's why FourGen programs take forever to load - hundreds of function resolutions have to be done. Perhaps Jonathan Leffler or someone could tell us if there is any way of switching off the function resolution on loading. Failing that, what say you all about putting it in as a feature request? > As far as performance, compiled programs tend to load VERY quickly. The > time between typing in 'prog.4ge' and getting a screen up is really > snappy compared to 'fglgo prog.4gi'. Running a process and looking at > the CPU time consumed, you'll find that compiled programs use about > half as much time as p-code programs. -- Cheers, Billy ----------------------------------------------------------- e-ddress: billy.wheeler@pixie.co.za Work: +27 11 803 2151 Fax: +27 11 803 2189 Cell: +27 83 250 2324 GCM/CS d++(--) h--- s+:++ !g p?+ au++ a? w+ v++/* C+++ 3 k- UCLAVH++++ p+++ L++ E-- N++ W--- M" V-- -po+ y+ t+ !5 j++ R+ G? tv+ b+++ D+ B-- e+ u** h----(++) f+ r+++ !n z++++/** -----------------------------------------------------------